After a situational assessment, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid directs Israel’s embassy in Kyiv to relocate to Lviv in western Ukraine. He and ministry staff in Jerusalem hold detailed discussions on the logistics of the move, according to a ministry spokesman.
The embassy staff will be working from the temporary consular office Israel opened in Lviv last Thursday, located in an office rented by Israel.
Other western nations, including the US and UK, moved their embassy staff to Lviv last week.
Israel’s diplomats in Ukraine have been working to convince the 15,000 Israelis who were in the country before the crisis to leave, but only around 3,100 have done so.
They are also preparing for the dramatic possibility of a land evacuation of Ukraine’s 150,000-200,000 Jews.
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